Of the world's 6,500 living languages, half will cease to be spoken by the end of this century.

Dr Mark Turin, director of the World Oral Literature Project, has spent much of his life travelling to remote corners of the Himalayas to study languages and cultures that are at risk and document them before they disappear without record.


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